UPDATE 2014: I DO NOT recommend comments in blogs be dofollow because you are more likely to be penalized for inbound and outbound link penalties if they are. I also recommend you turn off keywords if you were permitting them.

THE COMMENTS IN THIS BLOG ARE NOFOLLOW
and ALL SPAM IS DELETED! STOP SPAMMING!

UPDATED Sep 24, 2011

A DoFollow site is one that allows the search engines to follow a link from their site to yours. This increases the number of incoming links to your site, increases the likelihood that someone will locate you when searching, and improves your site’s position in the search engines. We all have a limited amount of time so why not make it count?

Focus your NEW community building in blogs that believe in dofollow! Read about How KeywordLuv Benefits us All

DoFollow blogs are more likely to have really active and loyal communities and commentators

Bloggers who believe in Do Follow are far more likely to visit and comment in YOUR blog

They have a positive effect on your blog’s position in search engines like Google

Do remember to maintain your involvement in any active communities you’re already visiting and keep an eye out for quality blogs and visit them even if they are not DoFollow. Then use the DoFollow Tools linked below to find new places to participate.

The use of DoFollow and plugins like CommentLuv, KeywordLuv, Lucia’s Linky Love (anyone have a link that works or know if the Lucia’s Linky Luv plugin still works?) and others is growing so spend some time and select blogs that you will really benefit from interacting with because the content they offer adds value to what you do. Implement plugins that encourage conversations.

WARNING: Some blogs that Use CommentLuv and/or KeywordLuv are No Follow. We use the Highlight NoFollow links function in the SEOBook Toolbar to verify them. We also recommend adding your dofollow sites to and and using this Verify Dofollow service.

Some blogs do revert to no follow because it does take a little more time to manage SPAM. The lists below will contain some blogs that are not still DoFollow but they are still valuable for locating blogs. You can usually use the SEOBook SEO Toolbar to instantly see whether comment links in a blog are dofollow or nofollow. (Some sites do block this function).

Or use the DoFollow Blog Search Engine to quickly determine if blogs are really Do Follow. You can also use that tool directly to search by keyword. It returns only those blogs that are confirmed to be Do Follow at the time of your search.

[NOTE: Updated 01/23/10 – All links last UPDATED Aug 26, 2009 – please leave comments if any fail and we will update them.]

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What makes this new DoFollow Blog Directory special? Unlike most other blog directories, this one includes ways to look for DoFollow blogs with certain features such as Comment Luv, Top Commentator, keywords allowed and Keyword Luv.

If you are a DoFollow blog owner: please go by and submit your link to the DoFollow blog directory. In addition to listing the above features, you can also list your blog as not allowing keywords and DoFollow links only happen after a set number of comments.

Also, don’t miss the DoFollow blog, which covers everything you need to know about DoFollow.

HIGH QUALITY RECIPROCAL LINKS:

Membership Site to find targeted blogs interested in Reciprocal Blog Linking and Commenting

DOFOLLOW PLUGINS:

Andy Beard’s Ultimate List of DoFollow and NoFollow Plugins – Includes directions on how to remove nofollow from popular blogging platforms including Blogger, Blogspot, Movable Type, Typepad and WordPress. Also how to install nofollow on these plus Drupal.

FREE ONLINE TOOLS: KEYWORD, BACKLINK, NICHE FINDERS

Free Online Tools: Keyword, Backlink, Niche Finders

SEOBook SEOToolbar – can verify dofollow or nofollow status in one click on many sites (some blogs do block this ability)

If you know of other related tools, posts or lists please leave links to them in the comments. Periodically we will move them up into the body of this post.

The list below is of DoFollow Blogs where I manage the comments.

I approve more comments to support small businesses, good causes and bloggers than most bloggers so being active in our blogs is to your benefit. They are all 100% dofollow from the first comment and have both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv installed:

Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist she mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers.
After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.

I was searching for blog commenting websites; fortunately, I found this blog and got a plenty of sites which allow blog commenting, thank you very much for sharing this list. I will go through these websites and sort out whichever works the best.Aqib Anjum would love you to read ..Should Bloggers Sacrifice their Sleep for Blogging ?

There are some examples of sites ranking for long-tail phrases, but only if there is not much competition. Speaking of backlinks, when you comment here if you have a legal site I won’t remove your links. I just can’t let you link to a site that enables copyright infringement.

Thank you for giving valuable information it will be helpful for beginners as well as people who don’t know the exact difference between do follow and no follow. I find it so helpful keep up the good work.

Well, in building my backlinks, I look at my competitors and check their backlinks, then I only click on the dofollow links and post on them.
One thing I will discourage people to do is to submit your website in automated submission websites

Yes KeywordLuv or commentLuv are great because i fed up of removing spam comments that says “Buy Viagra say” or “seo expert says” or watch TV on line says”. You have to give some value to the post if you want build a quality backlinks strategy. Thank you

I agree 100%, this is a myth from old SEO’s that remained until today. A link from a PR7 .gov or .edu has the same value as the link from a PR7 .com domain, the only real thing to look for is that the link comes from a related site to your content. But, so called SEO gurus still push this myth and there are plenty SEO newbies trying to get something that is almost impossible.Damac would love you to read ..Century 21 Real Estate’s First Super Bowl Commercial Stars Donald Trump, Deion Sanders and Apolo Ohno

Blog commenting especially on do follow sites as increased my rankings enormously and also traffic to my site. I have coupled this with article marketing on do follow article directories as well as the use of social media. My site is now doing well.Reggie Don would love you to read ..The 5 Indications You Will Need to Outsource an Article Writer

Dofollow links may be a good idea for a blog, but what would you do with spammers (like me now 🙂 ) who post there message just to post it (not like me though). So, can one make a dofollow blog but not spend too much time on moderation in order to get rid of spammers.

We are all socially responsible net users. Rather cluttering a blog with irrelevant contents, I would prefer to stick with 5 to 10 high PR blogs, which are relevant to my content and comment on their posts on a regular basis – as a sensitive and responsive commentator.

DoFollow blogs are obviously the best source of backlinks. Bloggers make a dofollow blog to get instant popularity; in return commentators get quality backlink from an established blog. A good deal for both side.

But we the commentators can offer the bloggers an incentive by offering a link back from our website by writing a review, Press Release on behalf of the blogger. I think we should incentivize the dofollow bloggs for their bonhomie, which I am going to make a habit. Are You?

Wow thank you so much for putting together such a great article so packed with resources.

I have one curiosity about dofollow that I haven’t been able to answer yet – somebody on Ana Hofmans (great) blog said something like ‘I don’t mind giving away some link juice to someone who comments on my site’ which to me implies that by making your site dofollow you are therefore ‘losing’ some link juice (whatever link juice is).

Does it basically mean when your site is being crawled that the crawler leaves your site and goes off somewhere else? Sorry for the naiivete of the question but I am a little confused by it.

I love the idea of sharing, have ccommentluv (which I really like) and always give credit where cerdit is due but our site is very new and I’m trying to build ranking and traffic, I’m considering making it dofollow (though I don’t acctually know how yet) but I’m also worried that if I do so it may slow my own progress in terms of rankings/traffic (or how much ‘juice’ I get??)

Not sure if that’s an easy one to answer but I’m goiing to take a look bacck over this article a few times when I have a little more time (you have crammed it so paccked with info it will take me a while!!)

p.s. one thing we do focus on on our site is really great quality content which I heard is the main thing for ranking now these days anyway, right?

When people talk about link juice they are referring to Google PageRank and the theory that the amount of “juice” a particular page has is divided among the outgoing links on that page so the more dofollow links there are the less “juice” that page keeps and each other link gets.

I am not certain that anyone REALLY knows for sure exactly how PageRank is calculated and it could change at any time so even if you devised a way to test it the results might not be true for long; however, there are many who believe they know:

How is PageRank calculated

Google page ranking algorithm

Because Google has a monopoly on search many obsess over search engine traffic but focusing on that is going to lead to a dead end as they first send less targeted traffic and then less and less traffic.

It is much wiser to focus on real people instead and to use links for their original purpose: an easy way to get to additional information. Bloggers who collaborate provide an alternate path for visitors and there are separate communities of bloggers that exist primarily because of a difference in ethical positions.

Thanks for the response, I figured it’s a bit like that – i.e. something that a lot of people comment on (pardon the pun) but no-one really knows.

Whenever people talk about ‘tactics’ for traffic that always seems like a bad approach anyway. The fact that Google are so good at what they do kind of dictates to me that the best way is to simply write good comments and make everything genuine including the links in your articles. That’s what I feel most comfortable with in any case!

Doesn’t stop me trying to learn what everyone is on about with these various terms (link juice, outgoing, ingoing, shake it all about going, on page, off page, backlinks, one-way, do-follow, no-follow, keywords, meta data, long tail keywords…) all of these were completely alien to me not so long ago but I’m getting there – thanks for helping me to understand one more term in your alien language 😉

Look it’s not like links from blog commenting will ever be rated as highly as say links seeded into article content. That said, blog commenting does provide a great way to improve your sites exposure over time.

I have started using commentluv to so some link building and web seo. With no previous experiance I have had great results. We done to blogs using keywordluv / commetluv as it rewards bloggers for their hard work.

All of you so rejoice to sites dofollow/And whether costs? More truly to you foreign ??? to masters it is good. And you try to find sites with dofollow in the Russian Internet! Yes… The Russian Internet just as a germ! There is at us nothing good! And not soon will appear!

This post is brilliant. I’ve read many posts on the DoFollow topic, but none were so detailed, specific and helpful. I kinda feel the need to spread the word and share this post with all bloggers I know. I think that IS what I’ll do! Thanks dear for this lesson on plugins! Love, Flora

Commenting on sites with DoFollow links are indeed very helpful to our site’s ranking. This is also another way of gaining more traffic. By the way, thanks for sharing the above information. I really found this very helpful.

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Great article.
Some of these are not longer working but most are.
Please see the dofollow articles (I have two) on – this has a list of dofollow blogs, search engines and tools on it.
Warm regards,
Eran

Yes, some bloggers intentionally start out dofollow and then switch and others change from dofollow to nofollow based on the erroneous assumption that spammers only target do follow blogs (that is untrue) or because they’re afraid Google will penalize them. (Our Pagerank went down here instead of up because we allow so many dofollow comments. Most likely it should be PR5 and dropped from PR4 to PR3. That is not good for the dofollow movement but I’m not changing my mind.)

If more people were less selfish and stopped leaving really awful spam and focused on sites that are appropriate for mixed company instead of vices there would be more dofollow blogs.

While I am generous with approving comments, leave just one that goes to adult content and every comment you’ve left will immediately be deleted to make sure you never do that again. Those who offer link building services need to have some common sense about it.growmap would love you to read ..Are You Accidentally Exposing Your Twitter Account to Hackers?

Loaded with useful information once again, Growmap! Since I found this site, I have been able to rely on the dependability of constructive quality professionalism that keeps me coming back for more. Thanks for helping me make the most of my time, Growmap.

There are trade-offs to everything and every comment is not going to be exceptional. Even extraordinary people write ordinary comments some of the time.

I don’t worry about link juice. Blogs are for people. Search engines are for people. Better to support small businesses and bloggers than kiss up to the power hungry who want us to play their games.growmap would love you to read ..Happy Birthday GrowMap 3 Years Old Today

Thank you for providing such a great list of resources. This is very helpful. I was not aware that you could use a nofollow highlight. I downloaded the the SEO toolbar you recommended and found it simple to use and really helpful! Thank you! You were a wealth of information!

You shouldn’t be because we don’t recommend commenting on blogs just for backlinks. What we recommend is that businesses and those who work with them should be regular readers of blogs related to their business.

Commentators do not ONLY get backlinks – they also create relationships with people with common interests and attract real people back to their sites.growmap would love you to read ..Blog Outreach Guest Posting Opportunities

It was making us nuts too – until Phil Hollows who created the FeedBurner alternative FeedBlitz encouraged Andy Bailey who created the CommentLuv plugin to write an Anti-spambot plugin to solve the problem. See that link for why it really works.

We went from 1000+ spam a day to less than 40 total comments. Apparently most spam is left by bots and blocking them eliminated most of our spam problems.growmap would love you to read ..Small Business Content Marketing Gold

Thank you for all these great resources! Backlinking is one of the biggest parts of SEO and there are so many people that have nofollow on their blogs. It gets frustrating. I understand why they do it, but not everyone is out to spam them. Instead of making a blog nofollow, you’d think they would make a system where the user is required to use so many characters or something. I guess then someone could just write jiberish and still get a link. There’s always someone who ruins it for the rest of us.

Thank you! I have a much better understanding of dofollow and what it means. I think it can only benefit everyone to have dofollow lists, but allow yourself the freedom of moderation. I really don’t care if someone posts on my blog just to get the back link.

Thank you for all these great resources. I’m just working on my dofollow/backlinking and it’s very tedious! All of these resources you provided will help me a lot. If you had to choose just one tool/resource, which would it be? I’m doing a trial of a niche profit classroom right now and it has a great keyword tool. I wish there was a tool that would let you know if a blog was nofollow if there aren’t comments already posted. If they aren’t posted, you have to check the page source, which is time consuming. You’d think that would be on someone’s list of trying to figure out a tool. lol Or maybe there is one?

I am so pleased with your article. Great list and thanks for sharing. In my opinion, both do follow and no follow blogs are essential to a website. It does not matter whether its do follow or not. It depends on the intent and purpose of the blog owner in question. What is clear, both have advantages and disadvantages of each.Jolly would love you to read ..Denver Colorado Homes

This dofollow bloog list really surprise me ,but it give me a big chance to smile.As i was worried about dofollow links for my site,now i have a chance to smile as i have your list for dofollow .
thnx to you for such helpful post.

I have no objection to your using my list; however, I have not tested the links and updated the list is some time or verified that all of these are still dofollow so you may want to check them out before you publish.

I’ve been reading that some SEO experts are finding through testing that do follow vs no follow is not the big deal we thought it was and that you get almost as much link juice from a no follow link as you do a do follow link. Has anyone else found this to be true?

I have not personally tested so I can not say for sure; however, I can share that IF nofollow really meant no follow those links would not show up in indexes – and they do – so they clearly got followed.

Another point I often make is that pagerank is not necessarily all that important. Would you rather have high pagerank or more traffic? I have seen many blogs that lost their PR but did not lose any traffic. What really counts is whether those who are your target audience visit your site – not what artificial number your site has attached to it.

Yes, there are people who look at PR and judge a blog’s value by it, but those with more wisdom know to look at PostRank, Compete, Alexa, Technorati and other data to get the real picture of a site’s influence.growmap would love you to read ..Why We Need Group Geo-Targeted Niche Blogs

One other thing that many don’t think about. When I am searching for related content to read, I comment on blogs I find. I note whether they’re dofollow or not. I will comment ONCE if they are nofollow, but they don’t go on my list of blogs to read and share.

There already is and will continue to be a great divide as more top bloggers must limit which blogs they have time to interact with and favor those that are dofollow. I do not choose to reward bloggers who take and do not give back and recommend that other bloggers not encourage that type of selfish behavior either.growmap would love you to read ..Building a List- Critical So WHY Have We Not Done It

I have found a lot of tricks for finding dofollow blogs but what I wish I could find is a search engine that would allow me to export all the links to excel. For example when I search for taxes then I get a lot of URLs but I search for 1040ez and sometimes I get the same URLs and it makes it difficult to prevent myself from going to the same blogs. Excel would help me with this I think.

Having a dofollow blog is very rewarding as it makes people want to contribute more and everyone wins! With the keywordluv plugin I think it is important to moderate all comments or install a spam filter as we don’t want the spammers ruining it for the rest of us!

Thanks for this info. I believe this post have been helped most of peoples including me. Backlink is a prior subject for me now since I have been successfully creating a blog. I’m guessing lots of your posts are informative and I really need and spend my time to read them

you can check if the blog is do-follow by using search status or other plug-in like seobook which will highlight the links with no-follow attributes. Even some blogs with commentluv are no follows so we better check before we start our campaigns.

Great information. I wish we had a larger list of where we can post while being banned from Akismet! LOL, I am so frustrated to find all of this great information and YET I can’t post as they vanish into thin air!! I hope to be up and running again in no time to get to work on this great information you have blogged about.

If there is a checkbox asking you to confirm you’re not a spammer that blog hsa the plugin installed. The wording is editable but you’ll find that CommentLuv bloggers use it and we comment in each other’s blogs so you can follow links from comments to find other blogs.

Be sure to read their commenting policies as they vary betwen blogs. Some require you to use a name and not just keywords – sometimes even if they have KeywordLuv installed.

I’m a huge believer in do follow links, and I agree with a lot of the information in this article. I learn’t about the nofollow tag a few years back and since then have been trying hard to obtain only nofollow links for my mortgage broker website. However recently I’ve been reading that nofollow links can actually help your backlink profile because they are more natural. What do you guys think about this, should I be trying to get a balance of followed and non followed links?

You want to get both nofollow and dofollow links so that your link building efforts look more natural. They aren’t really nofollow anyway because the search engines find them so that means their crawlers must have found them.

Links are the currency of the Internet and Big G’s games surrounding links are intended to favor their buddies and keep small business from competing. So-called no follow links can still be valuable for SEO.growmap would love you to read ..Building Traffic Using Anchor Text

One big disadvantage with opening up for dofollow links on comments is all the spam comments. Choosing blogs to follow and communities to participate in only because of the link juice and with Page Rank and organic search engine result pages is generating a lot of extra work for me even with Akismet and other tools. Forum comment spam is even more annoying. I run several websites and communities with good PR that is suffering from beeing attacked by link builders with “unethical” and spammy methods.

In 2009 I started using moderating of all blog comments, but the negative impact is less engagement and fewer discussions. To bad actually 🙁

I agree forum comment spam is terrible and it seems you always have to be on top of the latest updates otherwise they find ways around the captchas. With blogging at least the spam doesn’t leak onto your site if you are using good spam plugins. I recently switched from Akismet to Growmap’s own Anti Spambot Plugin and that has cut down on the spam I have to deal with tremendously – you may want to give that a try it will save you some time.Chris would love you to read ..AKC Recycled Dog Collars- 10lb Fluff Ball Chew-a-holic Proof

There are lists of known forum spammers and that is where I usually look when someone new asks to gain entrance. Just doing that eliminates a lot of problems.

Eventually more commentators will learn that quality participation beats spammy practices every time and they will start writing better comments and only commenting in sites in the niches where they wish to build links instead of totally unrelated sites.

Well, The appearance on how the keyowrds are arranged is very important. Sometimes, our post treated as spam because of the content a lot of keyword. Also consider that internet users often post reviews and comments in about product and services they availed, thanx.

Great list. Keywordluv makes it easy to find dofollow blogs! I think it’s such a great plugin, allowing people to get the backlinks they need for their webpages and is a good way to have people contribute to your blog.

No, I doubt that such a thing exists. If it were up to the largest search engine around there would be no such thing as dofollow. Have you thought about collaborating with related businesses to get even better dofollow links in their content?growmap would love you to read ..Stop Competing – Start Collaborating!

it is really hard to search and find do follow blogs. I dont actually know if some blogs are do follow thanks to you. You gave some list of do follow site I would like to say is that you have a great list this site really helps thanks.shyra would love you to read ..Creative Ways of Building Your Web Traffic

The problem with auto-approve links is that they quickly fill up with really bad links that you may not want to be associated with so while having to get your comments approved may seem like a bad thing it is actually better for link builders than auto-approve links.growmap would love you to read ..Monitoring Social Media Conference – London or Paris

It’s great to know you have those lists above but I used few of them as it’s too tiring to manage social network accounts whether dofollow or nofollow…a few but effectively works for your market is better than thousands with little output…Miss LP would love you to read ..Can twitter send traffic to your site

This is a very comprehensive list that will come in very handy, I think it is worth mentioning you can also download add ons to firefox that will higlight when links are ‘nofollow’ so you can avoid them if you like

Do follow blogs will surely increase the ranking of your website when google spider crawl. We are keep on posting to do follow blogs. Putting a lot of keywords and sacrificing its content. The appearance on how the keyowrds are arranged is very important. Sometimes, our post treated as spam because of the content a lot of keyword. Also consider that internet users often post reviews and comments in about product and services they availed.
SEOP Reviews is an example of review of user. It is important because negative feedback will surely affect your business in the world wide web.

There are many listed do follow blogs offered. I believe that all of them are effective it really depends on you on how you will use it.
By the way thanks a lot for sharing this informative article to us.

This is really very nice dofollow blog list. I like to get backlinks by commenting on dofollow blog that other link building stratgey. The most important thing is always to search for blogs that are related to your niche or keywords. Thank you for this great list.

I’ve been thinking about enabling comment luv, but I’m scared that I’ll get even more spam than I do now. Has enabling it resulted in more spam comments for you?Tom would love you to read ..The Basics of Guitar

Thanks for the list. I do believe in offering true commenters a true link back to their own website, but I have seen many dofollow blogs become nofollow because so many seem to have no problem dropping fake comments just to score a quick backlink to their own site, or they drop a link to what many would see as a “bad neighboorhood” such as viagra, other drugs, or online gambling.

We have a new solution to the spam problem and found that most of the spam is generated by bots and that is completely blocked. With Akismet blocking so many real commentators and letting in tons of spammy comments we were being buried in a sea of spam – 1000+ a day!

I consider that correct use DoFollow blogs to involve more traffic on the site, along with use of good keywords in creation of my blog. Because of it, I have created the web site to become DoFollow to reciprocate with other people who put comments in my blog.

Do follow blogs are great, but they can be a hassle to run sometimes. Keyword luv and comment luv can draw a ton of visitors, but not always the right kind. I use a mixture of both on my main blogs. Great post, thanks for sharing.Elan would love you to read ..DirecTV Called – No Thanks- DirectPCTV Is For Real

Thanks for the comprehensive list of blogs.I think it will help both the new users and the old users with something. I just been a visitor of this site but I have bookmarked this site now as the site seems to have it all. The name growmap perfectly suits this site as i think the more a visitor goes through the posts in this blog his knowledge and information grows.
Thanks a lot for this wonderful site and the way it is presented 🙂

Really interesting post …with nice explanation. I enjoy this post and find the huge resource list of do follow sites in single post. It’s true only do follow quality inbound links can give you advantage in search engine placement.

Interesting info. When I was learning link building, I didn’t know what dofollow & nofollow links are and the importance of a dofollow. Your post will really help the newbies in SEO.Make Money Easily would love you to read ..Online Side Job – Part Time Data Entry

I believe that proper use of dofollow blogs will drive more traffic to my website, along with the use of good keywords in creating my blog entries. Because of this, I set up my website to become a dofollow in order to reciprocate with other people who put comments on my blog.

I have read about the do-follow and Top Commentor in an internet marketing forum. I am new to blogging, so these are new and exiting concepts for me. On the forum I was looking at I saw a suggestion to write in google search box:
site: your keword + “top commentator” and just replace “your keword” with a keword that is relevant to my niche. I tried it and I did get some nice results. After reading your post I realized there are much better ways for doing that sort of searching. Thank you so much! You really opened my eyes.

I believe that you have given information here which will serve as the most important portion of any online earner’s arsenal. I will be setting up a dofollow blog and will get back to you to update your list. Hopefully, I can help to make a difference.

Wow that is quite a list. I’ve never had much luck with any search engines besides the official comluv site. What are you experiences with them?
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Hi, Thanks for keeping your blog do-follow.These plugins, Follow Blog, Keyword Luv,Comment Luv & Top Commenters continue to expand it’s usefulness, All great innovations to make blogging an easier and more effective medium. They are very useful, they are a great way to bring people to your blog and benefit the posters at the same time so everyonwins! Thumb’s up to the developers!

This is a great collection of resources concerning Do Follow and should vastly help increase anyones blog if applied correctly Especially for the novice blogger like myself it gives a starting point on where to begin.
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I’m a huge believer in building links by commenting on sites that use keywordluv. In the past I mainly relied on methods such as social bookmarking. But, I believe having a more varied group of link sources is a huge advantage for the long-term prospects of your site.

Installing these plug-ins to your sites is big advantage for you. You can earn quality backlinks yet it is very easy to use. This is very functional to every blogger and same as the commentor. But everyone must take care of the spammers be alert.

I am very new to the net and needed to read up on this subject. Thought it was a wonderful post very well written and helpful. I will surely be coming back to your blog to read more articles as i really enjoyed this one..

Hmmm that’s interesting, I’m currently using Lucia’s Linky Love (or Lucia’sLinkLove as it is referred to in the manage plugins page) and you are right the link to the plugin site goes to that old blog from 2007 with outdated info about the plugin. I don’t remember where I downloaded the plugin from since it was about a year ago. Since it is no longer supported is there a better plugin to handle that?
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CommentLuv is amazing. I use it on all of my blogs and it really does increase the amount of potential comments from readers, as there is an incentive for them to post. I like how you can post your name for a link. Thanks for the post.

Hi again
I found your site thru a dofollow directory and now I am on here I have bookmarked this article as it will save me heaps of time when I want to visit a site.
My blogging coach encouraged me to have dofollow and commentluv which I have on my blog and now I am beginning to understand their importance in building my profile and also helping with links.
But the best part for me as a newbie to blogging is to now be feeling part of the blogging community. Meeting such great ppl and already some have been helping me with techie things I didn’t understand and commenting on my site which I was blown away with as they have heaps of readers themselves but just wanted to welcome and encourage me.
Of course I now visit those sites daily and I am learning heaps from not only the articles posted but also the commenters too.
Thanks again for a very useful post that I know I will be referring back to often.
Patricia Perth Australiahttp://www.lavenderuses.com

I think by adding these type of plugins tells your readers that you really appreciate their visit and provides an incentive to drop a meaningful comment and add value to the blog . In my opinion, this is a great win-win situation.

Thanks a lot for this list. I’ve recently learned the difference between do-follow and no-follow and am currently commenting on blogs that use the keywordluv plugin so this post in particular is very useful for me 🙂
Jenna
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Thanks for the list. At least I know now which site will I prioritize and what plug ins do I really need and will really help in my page. Thanks for coming up with this list, I appreciate your effort in helping us.

Thanks for the lists. There are a lot of these lists on different peoples blogs these days, most of they are just way out of date though – I look forward to delving deeper into this list and hopefully contributing to some quality blogs.
Ken
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Great article and really helpful information about do follow blogs. Sometimes it’s really difficult to find do follow blogs. I usually search a dofollow blogs from google, but not all dofollow… can you give me some suggestion how to find it? Thank you.

Commentluv is really great i already install the wordpress commentluv plugins. Thanks for your very informative content about using commentluv and how it helps to a weblog
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As you rightly mentioned some blogs go nofollow after a while when the amount of spam they have to moderate increases. To avoid this, I added kind of a commenting policy on my blog which can only be broken via an email I send out to my loyal commentators. Comment moderation has never been easier now. I simmply hit the trash button on all comments that go against my policy and to my loyal commentators, I give the right to use any keyword of their choice etc 😉
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Wonderful post! We need a lot of such link building websites and blogs. This is a very helpful post for all those webmasters who are looking for dofollow websites/blogs.
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Very good information. I will be building links for my website for-beginner.com
We need more such dofollow websites and blogs, very good for building backlinks.
Thanks for sharing these websites and blogs with your readers.
Regards.
.-= Brian Litwin @ Online guitar lessons´s last blog ..Guitar Center Coupons March 2010 =-.

I have a World cup tickets related website in German Language for german speaking people(Germany, Austria and Switzerland), I promote a world cup tickets merchant on my site. I do basically php redirects to the publisher site. What do you say? Are these redirects are seen by google as do follow or no follow. Does php redirects passes some page rank to the publisher (for the anchor keywords in links). I afraid that I will loose rankings in google if I put straight links to the merchant (dofollow or nofollow) and merchant selling world cup tickets will get higher rankings in SERP’s for those keywords than my website. What is your opinion on this, should I put straight links on my worldcup tickets site to the merchant (if yes than) with dofollow or with no follow.

Wow, this was a very nice compilation of do follow sites. I do agree that most webmasters or bloggers usually comment on do follow blogs to get a link back for their comment, although its annoying that we can have several spams a day its still recommended to create a do follow site so that we can generate more traffic and loyal visitors to our site.
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Great list. Thanks for posting it. And a special thanks for being one of the good guys and making your blog dofollow and keyword luv. I was actually searching for the keywordluv plugin today via my wordpress dashboard to automatically install it on one of my blogs, but I couldn’t find it. I guess I will just have to install it the old fashioned way. Thanks again!
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Very useful list ! With these recommendations you can increase easily the website visibility in the search engines. Than you for this amazing list !
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Like James (commenter above), I’m also quite new to all this but recently have been using pages which have commentluv and keywordluv to build quality links to my websites. Thanks for sahring all the info and for letting me post here!
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Be sure to check out my new post about Keyword Luv. It has even more details on do follow, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv.
.-= Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All =-.

Hello If You liked my new Social Dofollow Network (Voting Site) will be happy to add it in your white list 🙂 –
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It is not clear from your comment what your new site is about and your sentence does not make sense. Perhaps you know someone who can assist you with learning how to more clearly express what you mean?

I’m guessing it is a site where users submit content, the links are do-follow and other users vote the content up. Every site needs a slogan to tell us instantly what makes it different and an about page so we can clearly understand what the point of the site is.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..BizLuv MEME: How to Support Your Fav Businesses =-.

Thank you for such detailed advice. I am new to this whole world but am slowly learning the ropes. I think building additional links is a good thing and will naturally lead to more traffic.
.-= James @ Black Cat Costume´s last blog ..Privacy =-.

Just came across this site and read with interest this post about do and no follow.
I am in process of building up links for my online store and so far my experience was 80% if not more of blogs, theme related to my shop are nofollow blogs. well, I still leave a comment if the post is good and I have something relevant to say. Even a nofollow link is good enough for getting some traffic maybe. What concerns the dofollow or keywordLuv blogs so they are still hard to find and I also found out, some of them are using keywordLuv as bait, just to get commentators coming to their blog, only to remove the link a day later again or to even change it to the link to their own blog. Isn’t that lovely?
Whenever I comment on a keywordLuv blog and next time I visit that blog again and my link was for no reason removed or manipulated in any way I leave the admin a “nice” thank you note and the bookmark gets deleted.
Using keywordLuv as bait only without being serious about to honor a comment with a backlink is just disrespectful and rude.

Even many bloggers who install KeywordLuv are currently opposed to it being used to benefit small businesses. They are blogger-centric and feel only other bloggers who regularly comment in their blogs should receive links.

We must all do what we can to raise awareness and understanding on why supporting small businesses both online and off is best for us all. The number of bloggers who do understand is growing; however, even on many of them you must read their comment policies and introduce yourself.

Everybody wants to leave links on dofollow blog, but I think no-follow blogs are great too. I don’t think Google is going to stop following the links if the blog is nofollow because I have had some good backlinks from some no-follow blogs.

Actually no one “invented” do follow because that was the natural state of all links from the beginning. What we do is remove nofollow which was “invented” by Google.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All =-.

OK I got the math question right, but some of the info here is great but a lot more complicated to me, I have managed to get information overload on SEO/SEM and will take some time tofigure it all out LOL working from home ion the internet is just as demanding as being a slave to the man and still a slave to the mortgage.

Yes, it can be overwhelming and no matter how long you’ve been at it you will find you are continually having to learn new skills and change strategies. It is actually MORE demanding but much more satisfying than having a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke).
.-= growmap´s last blog ..MEME: BizLuv in Support of Small Businesses =-.

Terrific! I overwhelmed it. I have not adequate words in gratitude. thanks for posting this resource very useful for my seo business dofollow are beat to get huge traffic and back links they ensures that you get your due backlink

How do you feel that the do follow and keyword luv etc. combo has done at increasing your traffic? Has it made a dent? I hear mixed reviews on the topic.
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There are very strong dofollow, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv communities made up of power bloggers and Social Networking users who understand the importance of promoting each other.

I have a huge commentator community because I actively participate in those communities and support those bloggers by commenting, sharing their content and especially by linking to them in posts.

I just published a post specifically about KeywordLuv that is garnering support from that community. I’ll feature it in their reply so you and others can read about why I strongly recommend it.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All =-.

While I do stay aware of what Google prohibits my philosophy is that blogs and Websites are for people – not search engines – so I make writing for them my priority. If Google decides they don’t like what I do I hope that enough people find me in other ways that it won’t make that much difference.

Over-reliance on Google traffic by most online businesses and especially ecommerce sites is very dangerous and currently almost impossible to avoid. I’m doing my best to find ways around that and will share them as they become available.
.-= Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Search Engine Positions: Easy Free Ways to Track =-.

I really liked the idea of do follow. I think I’m going to install keywordluv on my website. But from a plethora of so many do you recommend any other?
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We use KeywordLuv and CommentLuv in all of our blogs including Joint Venture blogs, blogs we work in, and blogs that others install for clients we advise. As far as we know there are no similar plugins and we would stick with these two even if there were.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All =-.

I agree that one is better to have ‘do follow’ and some ‘no follow’ sites that have authority because I have heard that Google sees a site that has only ‘do follow’ links as a spam.
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Since I am not a SEO expert I don’t happen to know that and I rather suspect there is no one answer. Most likely there are multiple thresholds used by any search engine algorithm that can be tripped by too many of any one type of link or too many links from any particular source.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..Search Engine Positions: Easy Free Ways to Track =-.

Welcome to the do follow CommentLuv KeywordLuv community. There is additional information about CommentLuv and KeywordLuv in the post featured in CommentLuv in this reply.
.-= growmap´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All =-.

Wow, you’ve done really well for yourself- keep up the good work and all those followers will keep on coming! Thanks for the awesome plug-ins!
.-= Caroline@Sweets´s last blog ..Sodas, Smoothies & Spritzers =-.

Great post, making your blog comments do-follow will encourage more people to leave comments on your blog because of the value of the links they get from this. Anything that encourages people to visit and comment on your blog posts is a good thing.
A good option to attract genuine readers is to allow regulars to post a “follow” link, for example once they have made a certain number of other posts, or been a member for some months.

I can appreciate the time and effort dedicated to this blog. You have done a great job with the articles and posts. The Privacy and Data Mining posts were of interest and I am sure to frequent the site.

Thanks for the list of blogs. I have been Do-Follow for quite some time and have a post up on it in my sidebar under “Must Reads” – Blogging Tips and Resources. There’s also a post in there about the benefits of CommentLuv. Tonight I installed Keyword Luv and hope others will do the same once they find out more about it.

This is one of the best posts I have read on this topic. I have bookmarked it so that I can come back to these wonderful resources later. Link building will become a lot more easier and beneficial.
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I never knew that about the Seobook toolbar – it is so helpful – thankyou ever so much.
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I’ve found that on my blogs that I use the keyword luv plug in I don’t have to worry about adding new content as often since most of the content is user generated. The only problem is I find myself deleting a lot of useless comments that add no value to my posts.

All in all it’s a great way to get one way links pointing to my sites.
.-= Justin @ Best Home Theater System´s last blog ..Panasonic DVD Home Theater System =-.

Thanks for the tips and links. I have just started using the Luv and DoFollow plugins myself on some sites. It definitely brings in some extra traffic. Good list of links – it’s going to take me a while to get through them. Got you bookmarked. Thanks.

I like KeywordLuv plugin and have installed it on some of my sites. I see it is becoming popular now-a-days…
I think, it is also increasing my web traffic.
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It will definitely do that everytime, when I started being do follow my traffic spiked and the comments increased, and contrary to popular belief, it does not increase spamming, make sure to always have Akismet, as you should anyway, be sure to filter the spam.
.-= JR @ Internet Marketing´s last blog ..List of 128 Comment Luv Blogs by Niche =-.

Thanks for the tips and links. I have just started using the Luv and DoFollow plugins myself on some sites. It definitely brings in some extra traffic. Good list of links – it’s going to take me a while to get through them. Got you bookmarked. Thanks.
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Wanted to say thanks for putting this list together. This saves a lot of legwork looking manually for do follow and keyword luv enabled blogs. Keep up the good work!
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Great advise and the list is very handy. Social networking and bookmarking sites do work pretty well, if you use them properly. The idea is to use them constructively and not spam each one, for most people it becomes a lot of work to manage a lot of accounts.

I know how hard and tedious putting these lists together are plus the fact of keeping up with them as do follow blogs switch to no follow and it becomes very time consuming but your post is one of the highest quality of all the do follow resources I have seen. Keep up the good work.
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I approved your comment even though you put another link in it to use as an example of a better way to add links in comments. First I want to warn that some bloggers will automatically delete comments that contain any links and that includes some dofollow and CommentLuv or KeywordLuv enabled blogs.

I have no problem with commentators sharing relevant links in their comments and suggest that for maximum effectiveness for the site you are linking to that you take the time to learn how to create links with anchor text in them.

Instead of just using the URL put AFTER the URL and it will show up like this: Geek Tools

I recommend all those who leave quality, relevant links in their comments start doing this correctly. Save the entire string for your most linked posts so you can copy and paste them as you work. I put mine in a Tomboy Notes because one typo and your link won’t work and most blogs don’t have edit functionality yet.

The whole point of KeywordLuv is so you can choose the phrase and the link and don’t have to add the html to create your own links. If you just want to create one link all you have to do is put the page you want to link to in the Website field and the anchor text (best keyword phrase) you want to use in the name field like this:

YourName @ Anchor Text

That will link the page you put in the Website field from the words you put as your Anchor Text.

One of the more outstanding ideas someone has come up with – really in my eyes, when you have visitors writing well thought, and knowledgeable responses to articles, they too deserve some credibility – thanks!

I do regularly update this post; however, I don’t post research specific to any particular industry in it. You can use the tools and lists provided to find them and I recommend you track those you find in a separate spreadsheet for each niche.
.-= GrowMap´s last blog ..Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers =-.

The other great thing about dofollow is that we get to interact with our fellow dofollow bloggers in many different posts and blogs. It is like visiting a business and knowing many people who are already there.
.-= GrowMap´s last blog ..Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market? =-.

Many believe that avoiding dofollow and putting nofollow on links – or even refusing to link altogether – increase PageRank. While that may be true I believe that dofollow is best for the good of all and so is being generous with links. They definitely create a much stronger sense of community and far more comments.

I have begun using keywordluv on my website, and it works really well. People write a lot of good content that gives me unique content and gives them a good backlink. A win-win for both sides. But beware, you will have to ignore / delete a lot of spam comments.
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CommentLuv is amazing. I use it on all of my blogs and it really does increase the amount of REAL comments from readers, as there is an incentive for them to post. I like how you can post your name for a link. Thanks for the post.

I love CommentLuv and KeywordLuv and we too use them on all our blogs. As long as a dofollow blog works to delete poor quality and spam comments they will find their commentators do leave good comments.

Since this blog is a learning resource I am more tolerant of weak comments left by those who are new to commenting or are not native English speakers than most. I hope my readers will understand that I would rather guide my readers to improve their skills than throw them out because their writing isn’t very strong yet.
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Nearly everything is laid here to find do follow blogs. I would be happy if you add the way to find do follow forums. Do you have any info about this?
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This post has a separate section for dofollow forums and I just recently added a new directory specifically for finding forums. Do remember to read the TOS in each forum as they are usually less tolerant of links than dofollow blogs.
.-= GrowMap´s last blog ..Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market? =-.

getting quality back links is very essential in seo.so best way to get quality links is from dofollow.in spite of this you will get good traffic on your site.really very useful.nofollow are waste of time.

Not everyone agrees with dofollow but I feel it is good to make it easy for small businesses to get higher visibility. Nofollow links do still get indexed and there are many quality blogs that choose to be nofollow,

Although I do read and share many sites that are nofollow, more and more I have decided dofollow bloggers are where I will focus the majority of my time.
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I see that you are doing SEO backlinking using comments. I know that can be a challenge when English is not your native language. Since I know you are a regular reader and you strive to leave better quality comments I hope my other readers don’t mind me keeping more than one sometimes.
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Excellent DoFollow resource. I made the switch to DoFollow on my blog just a few weeks ago. So far, so good. Great site, I’ll be back regularly. Thanks.
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I’m glad you’ve joined the dofollow movement. I really believe in it and am working on a post strongly recommending KeywordLuv in addition to being a dofollow CommentLuv blog. I’ll explain why in that post.
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I just updated my DoFollow post to add a link to your lists. I still haven’t made the time to create a consistent process for using DoFollow tools or lists. What we each must do is find a way to compile a list for our niche and make commenting a regular practice.

You might check out the BackLinkReporter tool as one way to track comments. Maybe he would create a comment tracking tool that includes a way to indicate dofollow. commentluv, keywordluv and PR.
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Thanks I have a number of links on my blog that links to yours. LOL Funny how that works out.

Since my niche is dofollow blogs I’m not terribly particular about what the niche of the blog is that I list on my site. Maintaining it is a pain but it’s not so bad if I keep the individual Page Rank pages split up into managable sizes.

I’ve been trying to catagorize things some but that’s a bit of a time consuming process as the list gets larger and larger.
.-= Dwippy@Dofollow Blog List´s last blog ..Blogs with Top Commentator Widget =-.

Do you have some lisr of health blogs too, i have health blog and need to promote it, its totally news blog having dos and donts about heatlh, news about diseases like cancer, diabetes, breast cancer, lungs cancer and many others, please help me to promote this and spread awareness to cure and treatment.

Check out the search tools in this post. Many of them allow you to search by niche or have directories of different types of blogs. One thing you should be aware of is not everyone believes the same things about health and disease. Be sure that the blogs you comment in are interested in the same views as the one you are promoting.
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really a great site and great blog.you posted very useful information regarding dofollow.socialnetworking and lots more thanks to you i used your list of dofollow and i got good results thanks to you.keep sharing.

Wow! So useful info for newbies as myself. Just wondering whether to leave a valuable post or comments on no-follow blogs gives some bac lnks or at least some good impressions for SE ? I am sure for the bloggers! Thanks again.
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This is an excellent list of resources. Comment Kahuna is also a good tool, Ive just downloaded it, though havent installed it but have heard excellent things about it.
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Thanks for the helpful resource, sometimes i get these kind of list from Google search engine and thought they might help my website growth but they are not actually i heard that they just seen like dofollow but actually are. Lets see how many of above will work in a postive way.

Blogs frequently change between dofollow and nofollow hoping to decrease SPAM. Neither does so we encourage bloggers to stay dofollow. We do update this post regularly, adding and updating links as we are notified.
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Do follow lists are to get good traffic to your site or blog. There are many such dofollow lists available in most search engines. all most all give you good result.
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Before reading this web page I was totally unaware of DoFollow Lists of Blogs, Social Networking Sites and Forums; DoFollow Search Tool; Understanding Do Follow, No Follow thanks for your valuable support..

There is always so much more to learn and implement. I hope you’ll take the time to read more posts here. I am working on new posts on how to evaluate ecommerce Web sites for affiliates, which blog directories are the most important and the top ten Local Search directories for greatest traffic.

I have googled up and tried so many lists but most of them were inaccurate. I can confidently say that the only list which is accurate and reliable is Growmap’s list of do follow. I feel glad after long hours of searching and finding the right one in you. My blog is also do follow and has keywordluv enabled.

I do update it regularly and ask that my commentators provide feedback so I can keep it accurate. There is no easy way to keep track of dofollow blogs because so many switch to nofollow thinking that will stop the spam. It won’t but they don’t know that.

Did you notice the green certified DoFollow emblem in the right sidebar here? They actively monitor blogs so their search is probably going to be the most accurate of the options provided on this page.

I followed you at Twitter and added you to my SEO / SEM list there.

I have an idea for your site. There is a huge interest in horse property and no real estate site I’ve ever seen provides the information horse owners need to know. That is a great niche to target even in Las Vegas. I have advertised some multi-million dollar horse properties there in the past.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Optimize Your PPC Advertising to Benefit YOU =-.

Anyone with even a basic idea of how search engine optimization works should make the effort to learn to use KeywordLuv and gain valuable links including getting to choose their specific anchor text.

As you can see in any blog that uses KeywordLuv many do not really understand it. I also recommend not always using the same anchor text and growing your incoming links organically.
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The April 2009 jump is from using that strategy. The September 2009 jump is from focusing on StumbleUpon. Wait until we finally have time to put an entire process in action.
.-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Local Search Directory Taps the Power of Television =-.

I’m always looking for some interesting dofollow blog sites, I like to participate in blogs and forums but I also like to get some PR love for my sites. Most ‘dofollow’ lists contain just a few blogs or whatnot, this page has a lot more information than I’ve seen elsewhere, thank you very much for putting it all together.

I research, test, and share strategies that work and focus on bringing together major amounts of information in one place and then keeping it updated. While that doesn’t work nearly as well as writing daily blog posts for keeping traffic numbers up it does have the benefit of being highly applicable to growing businesses and blogs – both mine and those of my readers.

I hope you’ll subscribe to PSP Living now so you will know when we finally have time to launch it. Like this blog it is DoFollow and offers CommentLuv and KeyWordLuv and there will be information there closely related to your own site.
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Indeed, do follow plug in do entice commenters into writing more relevant comments, if only because they are assured of high quality link because of this plug in.thanks for providing list,it will help me a lot.

Wise commentators take the time to write better comments knowing that they are not just incoming links – they are also a reflection of the writer and their Web site. Great comments attract real visitors as well as keep your comments from being deleted.
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Thank you Manie. I hope you’ll check out our other resources. I am working on a post that is taking what seems like forever that can really improve Social Networking reach and productivity. It will be published as soon as all aspects of it are thoroughly tested.
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I totally agree that small businesses and bloggers must start supporting each other. Great post about writing headlines for the search engines. I shared it across all the usual Social Networks.
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Thank you for the link. I will test it out and add it on the next update of this post. I continually improve and add to posts throughout this blog because I consider it a reference resource.
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Dofollow is the way to quality blogs i really believe so, since i have noticed that if i use nofollow that most of the comments that i get are spam, and if i make it to be dofollow i get the quality comments and spam too…

I do not approve spam anyways but why not have quality comments too 🙂

A recommendation to all bloggers is to join the movement with the rest of the websites with quality comments 😉

Thank you Nift. I’ll check it out and add it to the list (or another post specifically for Social Networking sites) on the next update.
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I have been reading a lot about social bookmarking and I am curious if social bookmarking contribute to back links, I tried some sites that appear to be dofollow but I don’t seem to get the back links. The second question is obvioulsy how long would it take for the back links to appear. I use the SeoQauke Firefox plugin to check.
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It is difficult to say which links are being counted by the various search engines and which are not. I do know that Yahoo’s links are more comprehensive than Google’s. Even though nofollow links supposedly don’t get counted that is not entirely true. This is not a black and white concept.
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Much of what we share here could easily be sold instead. We prefer to make it available to those who most need it – and that would be those who can not afford to pay for it or who do not understand the value well enough to want to buy it.

We also provide personal responses to questions and offer suggestions. In your case you should take advantage of the KeywordLuv plugin we provide to link your comments to your site using relevant keyword phrases. When you comment put Manie@Best-Web-Site-Host in the Name field and instead of linking from the name Manie your link will be on the words Best-Web-Site-Host.

That is valuable for improving your positions in the search engines and allows other readers here to know what your site is about in case they are interested. You can also use other phrases like Manie@web-hosting or Manie@hosting-comparison.
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Our desire is to provide expert advice for those who can not yet afford to pay for that level of expertise or do not understand the value in paying for it just yet. Do check out the post we’ve featured in this reply for an exceptional way to get incoming links, increase business, and improve your search engine positions.
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Thanks for the advise, I appreciate it. I’m still a newbie with back linking. I have a site (about a year old) with PR 3 but only with only 21 back links! Most of the links are from exchanges with similar sites and a few directories.
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I am working on additional lists and directories. In the meantime I am certain you could use these links and tools to increase your incoming links.
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I assume that you and ANSH mean that the KeywordLuv blogs allow you to get faster results in improving search engine ranking for that specific keyword phrase. That only makes sense and others need to understand how important anchor text can be.

For those who don’t know, anchor text is the words that are being linked – giftsdirect for example in the comment I am replying to here.
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I randomly try to check. Some of list no longer work. Such as , the list gone. It look like admin delete it. Also some blog from search result of DoFollow Blog Search Engine contain no follow blog.
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I regularly update this post and you’re correct – some of the links no longer work or the sites have removed the lists. Tucson Solutions had two of the best lists and was sending this blog a lot of traffic so I am really sorry to see them go – and wishing now that I had kept a copy of their list!

I just updated all the links again today and added some new lists a few days ago. Hopefully you will find all you need. I need to spend more time testing each of these tools to find the best way to compile a niche dofollow list.
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Hi,
I always try to give preference to the kyewordluv blogs. If you are using the keyword luv blogs then ,you can get quick results.
Anyways Thanks for the list.
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I’ve often wondered how my blog became so popular in India. Perhaps it is mentioned on sites there? Do you happen to know? My readers from India visit more frequently and stay on the site much longer than those from other countries.
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That is funny that you experience the same thing!
On my blog visitors from India are the second largest group of visitors, too, right after the US and before UK…
I guess this might be because a lot of SEO work is being outsourced to India and thus the interest for SEO is bigger there…

KeywordLuv is not nearly as common as CommentLuv, partly because some don’t understand it. I have seen many blogs using it but then having commenting policies that condemn using keywords. Hopefully as Internet users and bloggers get more experience the use of KeywordLuv will spread.
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I want to introduce you to another dofollow search engine: http://www.seo-traffic-guide.de
It is a little bit different from all the others, as you are emailed a comprehensive list, you can then sort by PR, dofollow, extensions like keywordLuv and commentluv and of course you can enter your own notes in the excel fiel you get.
I’d be happy if you could try it and perhaps add it to your list of dofollow tools?

Thanks for the useful post, and debate in the comments. There are pros and cons to KeywordLuv and CommentLuv. For me, CommentLuv has a slight advantage as it provides a deep-link to a blog post, as well as a general link to the homepage. Assuming you have keywords in your post-titles, you get the best of both.

As you can see we use both for the benefit of our readers. We find they encourage readers to click through and participate here instead of only reading in their RSS readers.
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In my opinion, excellent quality, relevant inbound links will help customers and search engines find your business website best. Getting back links/ inbound links from do follow is very easy. But getting quality back links/ inbound links is a difficult task.

Do you believe dofollow incoming links are not of the same quality? While links within the body of posts are considered stronger, as long as your comments are in related blogs, dofollow links are of high quality.
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Thanks for the useful links. For .edu links, I have found this site that allows us to look for .edu sites. Perhaps you would like to have a look. 🙂
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Thank you Kenneth. I shared that link at StumbleUpon and will add it to the body of the post too. Why that Avatar? Good thing I actually read the comments and check the links before I relegate them to spam or delete.

When I do searches for do follow blogs that are in my niche there are only a couple. But there are so many that are no follow. Do you feel I am better off doing comments on non-related do follow, or related no follow? I hear that no follow is not completely ignored.

Remember that your comments reach real potential buyers and that is just as important as where you are listed in the search engines. If you have stats or analytics you can use that to see which of the blogs – including the nofollow blogs – send you visitors.

Then you can prioritize them as to which are most important. When time is tight, focus on those that are dofollow and those that send real visitors. When time allows comment on some of the others.

You’re welcome. Do check out the dofollow tools mentioned. They should lead you to some niche sites interested in guitars. I also recommend reading my post about Selecting Keywords.

If you make your posts shorter and focus on what particular type of guitar or type or guitar part that will make them much easier to locate in the search engines.
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Surely commenting in do follow blogs is a win-win game, we need to use it in a more sagacious way. Astute comments are like jewel for blog site and they would reward us with a back link, but its ranking to see how many inane people use it insensibly. Hope this would change. But the tools helps us saving lot of invaluable time.
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The thing about commenting is there are many gray areas regarding what is permissible and what is not. That is why I don’t make a lot of rules here. People are busy and you can’t really expect them to read your comment policy every time they visit or to remember your particular rules.

The really sad thing here lately is I am getting what appear to be very high quality, well-written comments but they are spam so I’ve been deleting them. That makes me wonder if I should rethink that policy.
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Google is not a fan of dofollow so that may or may not stay true. We’ll be posting about what happens in that regard so you may want to subscribe if you haven’t already.
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Like most other bloggers using WordPress we do have Akismet installed. We also heavily moderate comments including those that get through Akismet and rescue valid contents that get picked up by it.
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Here is a solution to the Spam problem. Change the posts to NoFollow and add the “Top Commentator” utility. It is unlikely that Spammers will put in the effort to reach top commentator status. They will leave. There is a huge advantage to becoming a top commentator, such as a link from each page… huge link juice. You have to really add to the conversation. Any spammer attempting this would quickly be spotted.

While that would seem to be a simple solution many bloggers find that their commentators who were adding to the conversation suddenly start leaving any old comment to achieve Top Commentator status. There is no simple solution because we can not control the bad behavior of others.

I agree that Top Commentator plugins do provide a greater advantage to those who appear in them – at least for now. It is difficult to say what Google is going to do next. They are seriously anti-dofollow.
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While I do not personally use Lucia’s many major bloggers do. I know that you can configure it to have new commentator’s comments nofollow until they reach a threshold number of approved comments (usually 3-10) and then all comments become dofollow.
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Yes they do if people make real comments. Unfortunately many people are selling businesses dofollow comment spam. Those get deleted whenever they’re detected and all bloggers really wish those folks would find a more ethical way of making a living.
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I encourage everyone to consider planting a garden, contributing to a neighbor’s efforts with either labor or money to share the produce, or joining a CSA (Consumer Supported Agriculture), or buying from Farmer’s Markets or Vegetable stands, Fruit stands or orchards.

You have picked a niche that is growing. There is much here to assist you in improving your site, increasing your results, and driving traffic. I hope you’ll consider subscribing. Do ask any questions you have as for every question that is asked many more wonder but do not.
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Do follow blogs are very useful to increase the popularity of the site. This kind of marketing is really effective. Thank You for the useful information that you provide, I look forward for another informative post.

Thank you. Yes, they do encourage comments and unfortunately also spam comments, but that is the price we pay for being generous with links.
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Sites coming and going is the way of the Internet. Blogs switching to nofollow is usually due to too many poor quality spammy comments from people only interested in links and not contributing. Commentators must learn to be contributors if they want to keep getting links.

Your post about how to decide between Blue Ray and HD-DVD will be valuable to many consumers. I’ll share it on Twitter, FriendFeed, and cliKball.

I am reading this on 28/8/09 and I can see it is all NOFOLLOW. I guess looking at the SPAM that at one point it was a “Follow”.

However you said you were going to delete Vegas comment if he did not reply and he has not. So whats up? Eitherway I like what you have got to say and got here form Hobo another one I read alot. So you are book marked but you should carry out the threat or did you do it by changing it to no follow? Thanks
Matthew

What is all No Follow? The easy way to check is to use the SEO Toolbar because figuring it out by looking at View Source is a challenge. Note that the dates and Twitter links are nofollow and the comment links from your name and from CommentLuv posts are dofollow.

It is really a challenge to verify dofollow using view source because most sites and all WordPress sites have many nofollow links too. Some sites block the ability to see whether they are dofollow or not but I don’t so this site is a good one to test how to use the Toolbar.
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Ok… I see and I have learnt somethying new and I am not here to spam. I was viewing the source as I was on a work compauter using IE. I just did not look closely enough and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Thanks for teaching me something and for putting me on to SEO Toolbar 🙂 I look forward to reading more. Matthew

Be sure to check out the tools for finding DoFollow blogs in specific niches. Each blogger who uses DoFollow should also make the time to go add their sites to these search tools. Many of them are manually created and won’t find you otherwise.

Now that you’ve found us I hope you’ll be back. Oh, and I do hope you’re not teaching your students how to spam blogs. Everyone loves REAL comments and deletes those that look like spam. Sometimes it is a challenge to tell them apart.

Thanks for sharing the huge list of DoFollow sites. However, it is just bad sad to see blogs shifting from dofollow to nofollow. Well, maybe due to many spams and that way we can’t blame owners do such.

Yes DoFollow does attract comment spam; however, I still believe it is worth it to stay DoFollow. Some are concerned that Google will penalize them but we can’t make computer systems more important than people.

While I would simply eat more dark fruits, getting more Resveratrol one way or another is not a bad idea.

The reason blogs become nofollow is because they are targeted by people who are more interested in links than in adding to the quality of the discussion. Those who copy and paste get deleted most of the time – at least in blogs like this one. No one likes a spammer so the solution is to provide value with your comments.

While I do read major blogs that are nofollow my time is very limited so dofollow bloggers are far more likely to have me as a frequent visitor, commentator and to share their posts at Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball.

I believe that is what many who are nofollow do not understand; there are only so many hours in the day so focusing on sites that provide the most value is important to growing a business or blog.
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Hi Hanna. Welcome to GrowMap and thank you for taking the time to ask.

Apparently I should have explained that better. Originally all links were dofollow (meaning that search engines would follow them) and then Google came up with the idea to discount some kinds of links – and especially links in comments – and make them nofollow (the search engines would not follow them and they would not count toward page rank or organic search engine position).

Many bloggers felt this was unfair or unnecessary and decided to actively remove the nofollow tags and restore comment links to dofollow. Eventually Andy Bailey developed CommentLuv which allows our commentators (the proper word for commenters) to feature a specific blog post and attract more real people (as opposed to search engines).

Although it is more work (because spammers love dofollow blogs) we feel it is important to reward those who take the time to leave comments.

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Thank you. Check out our post “Blog Traffic Up 54.87% in the Last 30 Days: Our Proven Traffic Improvement Strategy” for more ideas. It is usually featured in the Lately Popular posts in the right sidebar and I’ve linked it to this comment to make it easier for you to find it.

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@Increase Traffic LOL Yes, many are into control instead of collaboration. Rules are only guidelines anyway so we don’t bother with them. Bloggers who just want to have fun are welcome here any time.

Even though I have visited every page of your site I do not have any idea what type of traffic you are selling. Anyone buying traffic really needs to know where and/or how you are getting that targeted traffic. If they don’t they could be paying for spam.

@Hanna Bloggers and KeywordLuv need to do a better job explaining how it works. It is somewhat backwards and even my readers who are SEO (and therefore must understand anchor text and keywords) don’t usually take advantage of it.

It is CommentLuv that I love most. I really miss it whenever I comment in other blogs where it is not available. I like to know what the bloggers who leave the most interesting comments write about in their own blogs.

I also love seeing when bloggers I frequent have new content or have shared older posts I might not have read – or that I am particularly interested in.

Every comment left here reminds me to come back to YOUR blog, and then I comment, and then I share your posts at Twitter, FriendFeed & cliKball. What other blog do you know of that works so hard to share your work and send you traffic?

If you DO know of others (or do this too) please let us know so we can visit them too!

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@Dana Actually, that would be “you are the WOman”! LOL Glad to be of service. Do check out the tools and especially PageRush too. This blog is now certified DoFollow through them. (100% of comments were found to be DoFollow.)

Others with DoFollow blogs may want to get their sites listed in their verified dofollow search engine.

@Rye The tools in this post verify which are dofollow and which aren;t. Any list can quickly get outdated. You might try them instead.

@Bill Masson That is always a challenge – and the reason I just published a new post on quality commenting. Hopefully it will guide some to making better comments.

@Money Academy I’m considering adding Top Commentator. When it is used I have seen it increase the quantity but reduce the quality of comments at times especially if the blog holds Top Commentator contests.

Leaving comments for the sake of increasing the numbers is bad for our readers. Perhaps our latest post will ensure comments here continue to improve in quality.

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Perhaps if commenter’s actually left a useful comment, like more than one line!! And gave some value to the thread then they wouldn’t get their comment deleted. Another thing to remember is that a lot of blogs do have a comments policy, but nobody bothers to read it. So if you want to build links back to your blog then put some useful information into your comments. This way you are more likely to get people clicking through your link.

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@Rancho Murieta Some THINK they’re dofollow and aren’t; others have gone back to nofollow quietly. It is more work to page through all the SPAM.

@Ashique Thanks for visiting. I’ll have to check out your blogger templates to see if blogger can ever be as sophisticated as WordPress.

@Web Design Glad you like the list. I’m hoping to get busy promoting a new contest using it very soon. I would have already if the flu wasn’t recurring.

@Rye Just remember to leave quality comments – and make them a couple of sentences long and refer to something in the post so Akismet won’t label them as SPAM and the blog owner won’t have difficulty deciding whether they’re real comments and not just seeking a link.

@nano I hope you’ll come back and check out our other reference materials here.

Some blogs don’t realize that there is more to removing nofollow than just adding CommentLuv. Multiple plugins are required and then you still have to sometimes manually remove nofollow tags – when you edit a comment for example. Many blogs also get tired of policing all the spam and go back to nofollow.

I visited your site and wonder which Rancho Murieta where. It would be a good idea to add more location data to your site and to always include area codes in phone numbers. Not every visitor will know where you are or whether YOUR Rancho Murieta is the one they’re seeking.
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@Paulo We’re all always still learning how to apply various tools and strategies. There is always more to do and more to learn.

@Peter Lee I’m glad you dropped by and commented. I’m still never totally clear on Duplicate content issues. Your post is one for me to check out.

@Bill Masson Akismet catches almost 100% of the increased SPAM I’ve gotten since I went dofollow. It doesn’t take too long to scan through it, rescue a real comment now and then, and delete the rest.

@Jasmin Wilson You are absolutely right, Jasmin. CommentLuv blogs seem to have particularly loyal commentators and I would give that plugin the most credit for increased comments here followed by the ability to subscribe to comments. That one lets us know when someone has replied to us.

In the future I’d still like to add threaded comments and the ability for commentators to edit their comments. My expert who assists with that type of thing is not available right now.

Thank you all for your comments. I do my best to answer every one personally and in a timely manner. I do hope you’ll all come back again.

I use the links you use to find new blogs to visit and to share your content at FriendFeed and Twitter.

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From my experience, Do Follow blogs usually have really active and loyal communities and commentators, and this is great. They come back, read and participate on regular bases. Thank you for this great list of resources!

Thanks for the list. I also think it’s important to note that not all niches lend themselves well to being a “dofollow” platform. I know a link is a link is a link, but you have to be careful. For instance my http://pet-snakes.com would lose traffic if people just stopped in to comment about issues not related to the topic (I know I tried it for a few months and biggest complaint was the comments), but http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com (my other barely still breathing blog) is a great place to use dofollow.

@Stephan Any time. I am active full time online and share daily at Twitter and FriendFeed so those who comment here are much more likely to end up being shared elsewhere. The more bloggers who interact with me here and on those specific Social Networks the more we all benefit.

@Dennis I do my best to create posts that are useful for future reference. I regularly add additional links and information to existing posts and link them into any new related posts.

You might check the categories and sub-categories here as I research and write comprehensive references and how-tos for bloggers, ecommerce sites covering Web design, Best Practices, Usability, Conversions, Local Listings, Social Networking, Increasing Traffic and much more.

If you have any posts related to any you see here do please share the links. I periodically move them up into the body of posts or decide a new post featuring new information is more applicable.

I hope to see you here regularly. I’m off to read and share your latest post. I share anything I find useful at FriendFeed and posts I really like at Twitter and FriendFeed.

@seothaithai Hello. I added a link to the tool site in your comment. The other three seem to be sites for sharing similar to Digg and are not actually related to dofollow as far as I can tell. If I am incorrect please provide additional information.

@Adam from PageRush – Your blog search is the most promising solution I’ve seen so far. The more accurately blogs can be categorized the more effective they each can be – and the more useful your tool will be.

Good to know that making it dynamic so that it will always be current is your long-term goal. Most developers I know do start out with a static model and then once they get it refined upgrade it the way you’re doing.

One thing I know is that the bloggers most familiar with dofollow are heavily interested in SEO, online marketing, blogging, Social Networking, ppc, etc. and their blogs usually cover multiple subjects – but not ALL of these areas. That is what was behind my suggesting keywords and/or multiple listings for each blog.

That way if we’re posting about one area we can add links to different blogs than if we’re posting about something else. Most lists lump these all into one category or list them in only one niche when they may have several specialties.

I’d be glad to beta test, offer suggestions, and help get the word out as the development of your tool progresses. Just email, Tweet, or leave me a comment here to get my attention.

Growmap – thanks for giving PageRush a try! I will be making improvements in the coming weeks, so let me know what you want. My long term vision for PageRush is to maintain a list of keywords that you are interested in. By searching for all of the keyword phrases PageRush will identify niche blogs you should be commenting on (dofollow or otherwise).

I also would like to create a directory out of the verified dofollow sites. However, I plan to do that in a way that can be shared and re-posted without getting out of date (for example a dynamic widget).

@Martin – I agree that content is always important and that in the long term, dofollow becomes less important. But when you are launching a new blog or site, dofollow is the quickest easiest way to get indexed by Google.

Hello Martin. I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t take the time to comment on blogs that are not dofollow blogs. I do it all the time and also share their posts at FriendFeed and Twitter.

When I can squeeze some extra time to go find new blogs though it makes sense to start with those who make an effort to create an active community because they and their readers are far more likely to participate wherever they travel online.

I don’t see this as an SEO-type thing; I see it as making an extra effort to connect with those who are the most willing to share and communicate with others.

I have to be honest in that I never check whether or not a blog has ‘nofollow’ set before making a comment. And I never restrict myself to only checking blogs that don’t have it set.

If there’s a good article on a blog, on which I have some thoughts to offer, I’ll leave a comment – without ever knowing whether or not ‘nofollow’ is set!

I honestly don’t think it makes any difference.

In fact, by only following blogs that do not have ‘nofollow’ set I think you’re depriving yourself of visitors.

After all – if someone visits a blog, reads your comment and thinks they’d like to have a look at what else you’ve written, they’re going to do it anyway.

Taking it to the extreme: If CopyBlogger or Jack Humphrey’s FTR had ‘nofollow’ set (and I’ve no idea whether or not they do) and one of them left a comment on your blog don’t you think people would want to take a look at what else they had to say?

To me it’s all about content. Focusing on the content, rather than on SEO-type things, is ultimately going to create more success for any site or blog.

@Adam Thanks for letting us know about your new dofollow blog search engine. I’m using it today and may have more tips and strategies for using it in a future post. You may want to join CommentLuv as adding it has caused an immediate jump in comments here.

@Monty One super list would be awesome. That wasn’t what I thought you were doing when I visited your site and linked it into the post above.

I just visited that dofollow directory page. What these lists have all lacked was a quick way to hone in on niche dofollow blogs. I’m really looking forward to using this new tool.

Let us know when you have it populated or are ready to have us submit our sites so we can start driving traffic to it from Twitter and FriendFeed and blog about it.

Darn Twitter limits. I’ve got to find someone to unfollow so I can follow you there.

I just launched a new dofollow blog search engine last weekend, can you please include it in your list? All of the blogs are manually verified for dofollow and will be re-verified on an ongoing basis. I got frustrated with lists like some of the ones you link to above which are only 40% accurate.